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Monday: Didn’t finish anything.
Tuesday: Finished Shadows in Bronze, another Marcus Didius Falco mystery (set in Vespasian’s Rome) by Lindsay Davis. So far, they are not my Favorite Mystery Series Ever (Laurie King’s Mary Russell novels and the Dorothy L. Sayers Wimsey novels compete for that title, and the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters are right up there), but I’m having fun with the series, and looking forward to reading more once I do more requests from the library.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: Didn’t finish anything either (end of school year festivities and post-festivity exhaustion will do that to a person) but started several things.
Saturday: Finished three books:
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education by Craig Mullhaney. Mullhaney is a West Point graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, and was deployed as a platoon leader to Afghanistan. In the book, he talks about his education and how it shaped the choices he made at various points. It’s very readable, and fascinating, but I found a number of places I wish he’d gone deeper. This was my favorite of the week.
The Tomb of Zeus by Barbara Cleverly. I liked her historical mysteries set in colonial India, so picked this up at the library. It’s set in 1920 Crete, with a female archaeologist, a house filled with mysteries, and lots of fun tidbits about Cretan sites. It’s one of those mysteries where you need a certain suspension of disbelief, but it was fun and I look forward to others with the main character.
In His Sights: A Tale of Love and Obsession by Kate Brennan (a pseudonym). The author’s telling of events leading to a years-long (and still ongoing, as of the publication of the book) stalker, a former romantic partner. While parts of the story have some critical reviews as being too far-fetched, the basic facts have been confirmed (see discussion in NY Times piece here).
It’s a very interesting book. I was particularly intrigued by how it changed some of her relationships (dropping friends who knew him, and who passed along information that might seem harmless on the face of it, but which fed the obsessive behavior - or simply wasn’t appropriate to pass along to an ex.)
Sunday:
Finished both In the House of the Vestals and The Gladiator Only Dies Once by Steven Saylor - more Gordianus the Finder mysteries. Fun, as they’re both short story collections, set between the first novel and the second one (which I have not yet read, and which takes place some years after the first one.) and you get to see lots of different little slices of the Roman world.
Books read in June: 6
